Getting hot under the collar about ice-cream vans
Tackling obesity is not about regulation, it’s about educating parents and children
It’s not up to Government to play rounders with children in Ireland, it’s up to parents. Photograph: Getty Images.
If one were to make a list of priorities concerning child welfare in Ireland, ice cream is probably not “up there”. Fine Gael Senator Catherine Noone, an enemy of ice cream cones everywhere, thinks otherwise, raising the issue in the Seanad, and not doing those in favour of the retention of that House of the Oireachtas any flavours, sorry, favours.